Recipe Apps

[ksong1189]

Where do you get your recipes from? Anyone using any recipe apps to recommend? I usually get my ideas from pintrest and YouTube nowadays. 

[Okanagancook]

Mostly I use my cookbooks in conjunction with the website Eat Your Books to find a recipe.

[Lisa Shock]

I have found that the best recipes are on curated websites that only use tested recipes. Saveur, Food & Wine, Epicurious, Cook's Illustrated, Milk Street, and Martha Stewart are the prominent ones.

 

Many apps are just recycling recipes from Allrecipes and that's just a swamp filled with mediocrity. I also find that a goodly number of Pinterest recipes don't work -someone created a cool photograph, but it cannot be replicated and be edible.

 

Honestly, there's a huge amount of value in the classics like Escoffier and Ranhofer. And, of course, we're always learning more about the science behind it all and the Modernist Cuisine books give us the ability to refine and improve upon the past. And we're also seeing many more regional cookbooks giving us tested recipes from around the world.

 

Some great chefs have youtube channels, example, and I enjoy them. We have a Youtube thread here and there's obviously a lot to explore. I enjoy seeking technique videos more than recipe videos, though. (like how to braid various types of bread) I will also admit that I have watched a lot of poor quality youtube videos with untrained people making low-quality food.

 

Ultimately, I'd rather grab a book that I trust and skim the recipes to see if I want to make something rather than being committed to watching one seven-minute video that may not be what I was looking for. In seven minutes I can vet a dozen recipes from a trusted book or two and be done.

[Okanagancook]

I'm with Lisa on this.  So many crapy recipes on the internet.  

[kayb]

I have, though, always been pretty happy with the recipes I've picked up from eGullet! I save a few from the NYT Cooking, a few from Food 52, some from Food and Wine, and many from friends who share them on Facebook, in addition to the excellent sources @Lisa Shock mentions above. I'm wary of mass-market websites that push content on Facebook, like Taste of Home, 12 Tomatoes, etc. 

 

As far as apps go, I am fond of the Copy Me That app that copies recipes for you.

 

[ElsieD]

I've always liked Smitten Kitchen.

[gfweb]

I don't trust most recipes unless from curated sites as @Lisa Shocknotes. 

 

But I also rarely follow a recipe unless it's baking. 

 

I tend to to use a recipe for the concept ...which flavors to use etc. 

[ksong1189]

8 hours ago, Lisa Shock said:

I have found that the best recipes are on curated websites that only use tested recipes. Saveur, Food & Wine, Epicurious, Cook's Illustrated, Milk Street, and Martha Stewart are the prominent ones.

 

Many apps are just recycling recipes from Allrecipes and that's just a swamp filled with mediocrity. I also find that a goodly number of Pinterest recipes don't work -someone created a cool photograph, but it cannot be replicated and be edible.

 

Honestly, there's a huge amount of value in the classics like Escoffier and Ranhofer. And, of course, we're always learning more about the science behind it all and the Modernist Cuisine books give us the ability to refine and improve upon the past. And we're also seeing many more regional cookbooks giving us tested recipes from around the world.

 

Some great chefs have youtube channels, example, and I enjoy them. We have a Youtube thread here and there's obviously a lot to explore. I enjoy seeking technique videos more than recipe videos, though. (like how to braid various types of bread) I will also admit that I have watched a lot of poor quality youtube videos with untrained people making low-quality food.

 

Ultimately, I'd rather grab a book that I trust and skim the recipes to see if I want to make something rather than being committed to watching one seven-minute video that may not be what I was looking for. In seven minutes I can vet a dozen recipes from a trusted book or two and be done.

 

I absolutely love recipes from Epicurious! If I'm not watching a video off YouTube (usually for specific or new techniques because I'm a visual learner), I get my recipes off Epicurious. I have a lenovo smart display that sits on my kitchen counter so whenever I need some dinner ideas, I just ask it to pull up recipes from Epicurious or Bon Appetit and skim through the steps. Loads of inspiration I can get from these two websites. I tend to only let it read out the instructions to me when i'm trying out a new baking recipe. I don't like forgetting technical steps along the way so it's useful to have an 'audio assistant' leading the way. 

 

@kayb copy me that sounds cool. I'll be sure to check out...it looks great for meal planning in advance. Thanks! 

@gfweb yeah i agree, it's mostly for concepts/inspiration. Sometimes when I'm on Instagram I check out short videos from buzzfeed food/tasty for ideas. Quite nifty when I'm on the go or just trying to kill time. 

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[Lisa Shock]

9 hours ago, kayb said:

I have, though, always been pretty happy with the recipes I've picked up from eGullet! I save a few from the NYT Cooking, a few from Food 52, some from Food and Wine, and many from friends who share them on Facebook, in addition to the excellent sources @Lisa Shock mentions above. I'm wary of mass-market websites that push content on Facebook, like Taste of Home, 12 Tomatoes, etc. 

 

As far as apps go, I am fond of the Copy Me That app that copies recipes for you.

 

 

8 hours ago, ElsieD said:

I've always liked Smitten Kitchen.

 

I knew I was missing some sites! I also use Serious Eats, I like their research.

[rustwood]

I am not entirely sure this is what you mean by "recipe apps", but you might want to check out this thread for apps that capture and store recipes you find on websites (and elsewhere): 

 

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[ElsieD]

Does anyone know of a good recipe app, as in a place to store one's recipes?  I am currently using Evernote but find it expensive and would prefer to purchase an app.  Evernote won't let me print a recipe which I find annoying.  I am about to test recipekeeper as they allow you to try it out with 6 recipes.  One thing about recipekeeper is that their client support is excellent.  I sent them 2 different emails and got replies quickly.  What, if anything do you use?

 

I my case, I need something that will work on Samsung, I.e. Android.

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[blue_dolphin]

I've seen a lot of people here mention Paprika. 

If you live in the Apple world, Mela is a good option that I’ve been using but it doesn’t work on Android. 

[Rickbern]

I’m a devoted user of paprika, I think it’s great. I use it on my phone, two iPads and a Mac, it’s always in sync. Only downside, and it’s not their fault, is that it’s difficult to get a recipe from a kindle book into the app. That’s why I bought the desktop version 

[ElsieD]

3 hours ago, Rickbern said:

I’m a devoted user of paprika, I think it’s great. I use it on my phone, two iPads and a Mac, it’s always in sync. Only downside, and it’s not their fault, is that it’s difficult to get a recipe from a kindle book into the app. That’s why I bought the desktop version 

 

Can you elaborate on this please?  Are you saying the desk top version will operate on everything but the other won't?  Are there two versions?

[Rickbern]

Yes, happy to. 
 

there is a mobile version that works on both phones and tablets. The license at the time I bought it was 15 for lifetime. It has full functionality. Works great for browsing websites and adding them to your library. You can copy and paste from a kindle but Amazon makes it a bit of a PITA. 
 

in addition there’s a desktop version. Again, 15 bucks for life. I have a large kindle cookbook library and it occurred to me that using a desktop would make this more enjoyable so I ponied up the fifteen dollars and now I can more easily add this content 

 

for my money this was worthwhile. If you have an extensive amount of your own content that doesn’t follow the web rules of how to format a recipe I would suggest budgeting for both, but I happily used the phone version only for probably four years before I bought the desktop version 

[Rickbern]

9 hours ago, ElsieD said:

 

Can you elaborate on this please?  Are you saying the desk top version will operate on everything but the other won't?  Are there two versions?

See above. Forgot to reply to you 

[lindag]

When Living Cookbook went dark I switched to Paprika.